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Fontainebleau!
I went to Font at the end of September. I was planning a big post about it, but I’ve failed. Hmm. I should sort it. Anyway! Here is a pic: This is Blue 38 at La Canche aux Merciers. Pic by Lorraine.
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A critical error has occurred: Operation Fail.
I’ve been meaning to post in here for ages. I’ve been doing quite a bit of climbing recently, bouldering twice a week and getting back on the leading band wagon. Frankly, it’s been great. Even...
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A quick video throw together some attempts on Onde de Choc at Apremont in Fontainebleau. Lorraine and I were pretty much not climbing this day, instead happy to sit in the sun and take lots of video...
View ArticleAnother week in Fontainebleau
Today is the last day of another week in Fontainebleau. I’ve come later than usual this year as we are usually here either April/May, or September, but this time we’ve come a little later. I was...
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Fontainebleau Trip 2016
Not quite as massively delayed as my post about the 2015 Font trip but still pretty late, a quick write up our next one! After the fun we had in 2015, we pretty quickly booked in again for the next...
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Circuit des 25 Bosses: Simultaneously the best and worst long training run of...
I needed to do a 32k long run while out on holiday in France. We’re right next to a lovely wood, but also not far away from the Trois Pignon where loads of awesome climbing areas are. While pondering...
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Fontainebleau 2017
Day 1 – Rocher Fin The Walk In to Rocher Fin After a bit of a slow morning, but with the great traditional breakfast of fresh coffee, sugary grapefruit and fried eggs on marmity toast we set off to...
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Fontainebleau 2018 – Day 1
Well, it’s been a long time since I’d found the brain power to write a post here. I’d started out with good intentions with my end of year/start of year, but just never found myself writing anything. I...
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Fontainebleau 2018 – Day 2
Day 2, first day of climbing. We had a slow morning (like we kid ourselves any morning will be quicker) opened with fresh grapefruit, fried eggs on nice toast and lots of coffee before heading to our...
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Fontainebleau 2018 – Day 3
Blue 40 – Prow of Doom Woo, my toes hurt! Second day of climbing was a good one. Jim challenged me to climb blues at La Canche aux Merciers which was a great little bit of motivation for climbing hard....
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Fontainebleau 2018 – Day 4
When in Font, we tend to follow the same pattern. This means day 4 is our last day before a rest day to give the fingers and toes some time to recover from the torture of climbing shoes. This means...
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Fontainebleau 2018 – Day 6
Back to the climbing! After our ‘recovery day’ which left quite a few of us feeling quite tired, we decided on going to Cul de Chien. This tends to be one of the sites we go to when the weather...
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Fontainebleau 2018 – Day 7
As Friday was our last day climbing before we had to go home, we decided to try and get out a little earlier than usual to maximise the climbing. We were original considering heading to l’Éléphant as...
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A mid climbing holiday run!
I’ve mentioned Le Circuits Des 25 Bosses a couple of times in my blog now, so I thought it might make sense to give you all a better sense of wha it was like. When we went out and ran it on our rest...
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Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019
I’ve been really bad at doing any updates here, with the exception of the splurge while I was out at Fontainebleau. I’m not really sure why the blogging died off, as I was enjoying, it, but I suspect...
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Fontainebleau 2019
Aaah! Holiday time! Yeah, I’m well overdue a blog update, but I’m still not in a blogging mood. It would be a shame however not to capture some notes of how the climbing went while in sunny République...
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Welcome to the 20s
What an odd year for running and climbing. Reflecting back on it, I feel like it’s been a bit of a crap year for my running. Running Reflections Except, it really hasn’t: 2023 kilometres in 2019....
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